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16:9: Giant LED Tower Visually Dominates Central Court In Oman Mall

The is what’s touted as the biggest LED tower in the Middle East, a 40-foot tall by 15 foot wide structure that also has an LED floor surround, now up and running at the Muscat Grand Mall in Oman. The tower which used 4mm LEDs and adds up to 263 square meters of visual canvas, and 16.5 million individual pixels. The project was put together by UK-based Dynamo LED Displays. […]

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Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:34 PM

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Mark Stross Of ANC On Bringing The Spectacle Of Sports And Live Events To Digital OOH

ANC got its start about 20 years ago as a rotational signage company that primarily serviced the pro sports business, and through the years, ANC has grown into a big tech services provider that’s been putting in the visual systems for many arenas and stadiums. […]

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Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:01 AM

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Adidas Auto-Renders Highlights Videos Of Every Boston Marathon Finisher – In 24 Hours

Via Adweek This is a fairly amazing take on auto-rendered custom videos than has nothing to do with digital signage, but should certainly get some technical and creative people thinking about the possibilities for mass creation of creative spots. […]

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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 5:24 AM

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Digital LED Waterfalls At Casino Lounge Replicate Real Falls In Nearby Mountains

This is a really interesting use of fine pitch LED in a new resort casino in New York state’s Catskills region. It’s a 2.5mm pixel pitch curved wall behind the Empire Lounge bar stage at Resorts World Catskills, which opened about 10 weeks ago. The 42 feet wide, 13 feet tall canvas has a resolution of 4992 by 1536 pixels, so more than 4K with its width. […]

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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:42 AM

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Danish Company Adds Tweakable Mood Settings To Art-Based Digital Signage Service

A small Danish company has added a new wrinkle to its fine art-based digital signage content platform – tweakable mood settings. ArtPlayer, says a press release, can display artworks and nature pictures based on your selected mood setting: Happy, Sad, Calm, Excited, Awed, Disgusted, Angry or Afraid. This is done using artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning algorithms. […]

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Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 9:20 AM

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New Version Of Intuiface Works In Interactive Web Triggers From IFTTT Recipes, Zapier Apps

The French interactive software firm Intuilab has released a new version Intuiface that now allows content to be triggered based on really common Internet of Things web triggers, like IFTTT recipes. […]

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Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 9:25 AM

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16:9: How To Screw Up A Digital Signage Deployment.

Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Sean Matthews While costs are certainly coming down, a comprehensive digital signage deployment is still a chunk of change. What a shame to spend all that money and then fumble the project when it comes to getting the system up and running. Unfortunately, that happens far more often than you might think. […]

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Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 8:01 AM

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16:9: Startup Releases API For Cannabis Tech Companies, Including Digital Signage Solutions

Via Pot Network With all of Canada going to legalized cannabis this summer and more U.S. states doing so (California is roughly the same population as Canada) there will be a lot of points of sale and a lot of digital menus and promo displays over the next few years. […]

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Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:16 AM

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ELO Digital Office USA Hosts Information Management Roundtable at AIIM Conference 2018

BOSTON, April 9, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — ELO Digital Office USA, enabling businesses to improve collaboration and streamline information management in a digital economy, announced it will host a roundtable session at the AIIM18 Conference (San Antonio, TX). […]

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Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:12 AM

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16:9: Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design

Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And there’s the HBF sign that’s askew. […]

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Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 8:32 AM

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16:9: The Digital Campus: The Rising Challenge For Education

Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Gone are the days of the cold, impersonal lecture halls, with rows of students diligently writing notes after notes long-form in books and files they later go on to lose.  Today’s students are ‘digital natives’ brought up in a world of smart phones, high speed wi-fi and technology on demand. […]

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Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 8:15 AM

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16:9: Instagram And Facebook Say Abrupt API Changes Tied To Broader Privacy Concerns

Facebook’s newsroom page does NOT want to load for me – the loading circle thingie just spins and spins in Chrome – so I can’t read the company’s statement about why its Instagram wing made abrupt changes to its API yesterday that broke the functionality on a lot of third-party Instagram applications, including social media visualizations for digital signs. […]

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Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:35 PM

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Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital

This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd  – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. […]

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Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:42 AM

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16:9: Instagram Changed Its API, And Now Your Version On Digital Signs Probably Isn’t Working

If your digital signage or digital OOH network calls and displays Instagram posts/pix, you may well have an issue because of API changes made by the social media company. The short story is – a lot of what you show may no longer show. If you don’t have logins for Instagram account you want to show, sorry. […]

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Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:10 AM

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Amazon’s LED-filled Visitor Center Explains Its New Rainforest Office Space In Seattle

This is an area called Understory – an LED-filled exhibit and visitor center tied in with The Spheres – three giant intersecting, plant-filled domes that are part of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters building. […]

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Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:48 PM

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